Herbert Hoover actually said...

When there is a question pending over the world's economic life, the actual realization of it is much less severe on us than is the constant...

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, Executive Order No. 5327 of April 15, 1930, withdrawing certain lands for purposes of ...

The fact that the pound is taken off its fixed value of $4.86 is not the abandonment of the gold standard even for the pound.

I do not know of any nation in the world which manages to maintain through its national life the gold value of its currency.